Dodgers Rookie of the Year winners, all 18 of them

Dodgers Rookie of the Year #16

• 1B Cody Bellinger, 2017
• 1 seasons with Dodgers
• .267/.352/.581, 138 wRC+, 548 PA
• 4.0 fWAR, 4.2 bWAR

Since Bellinger just won the ROY award, it’s hard to know where to put him on this list. He was very good, though, so it feels like he should be higher than Joe Black, who really only had one good year, or Todd Hollandsworth, who spent a dozen seasons in the big league generally being a bit above replacement level. For now, Bellinger gets this spot.

Before exploding on the scene with a record-setting rookie season, Bellinger was a top-100 prospect for Baseball America in each of the last two offseasons. He hit 30 homers in High-A in 2015, 26 across two levels of the minor leagues in 2016, and an NL-record 39 for the Dodgers this year.

Bellinger set the NL rookie record for homers even though he didn’t begin the season with the Dodgers. He started the year with Oklahoma City in the PSL, where he hit .343/.429/.627, with five home runs in his first 18 games.

It was expected that he would spend a few months in Triple-A before getting to the bigs, but an injury to Joc Pederson and poor hitting by Adrian Gonzalez prompted the Dodgers to call him up

Once he arrived in the show, Bellinger lit the league on fire with a ridiculous nine home runs in his first 24 games and 24 home runs in his first 57 games. By the end of the year, he had 39 long balls, breaking the previous Dodgers rookie record of 35 set by Mike Piazza in 1993. His 97 RBI were the third most ever by a Dodgers rookie.